This piece is one from the archives. Since I moved, the setup of everything had to be changed, and some pieces were “broken”. I just re-jigged this piece tonight, and it now works fine.
Background: the music is about a day at the park (uh, from the title...) It’s a happy park, with vividly green grass (no yellow dry patches), and jugglers, ice-cream stands, and those entertainer people on unicycles. The flutes in the opening melody are reminiscent of happy birdies flying around. Wow. I sound like those music commentaries from those dreaded music history textbooks...
In the middle of the piece, there is a boy who asks his mother for an ice-cream cone. She is hesitant, but then he pleads, giving her the “big sad eyes” (harp plucks) and finally, she gives in and says “Well, OK” (french horn). There is then a ‘wobbly’ sounding part that follows - that would be one of the balancing acts of the entertainers. Is he going to fall? That is one tall unicycle... it’s those crazy ones. I am not entirely satisfied with the marimba used in the piece, but I couldn’t find the good orchestral marimba sound. Perhaps a little more digging and rejigging is in order...
The day ends with a happy theme - a joyous hurrah for a day well spent at the park.
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4 comments:
hey tubbysaurus! are there prizes for first comment??
I like ur park days theme! Does sound very happy!
cheerios!
Your photo doesn't look like you. Other than that, nice to see you on the blogosphere; an excellent forum in which to share your creativity. Thanks for the link.
Can I just say that I did not know that music was about little vignettes like that? It was cool that I could follow along with the story.
Someone should turn it into a pixar short!
Well, I suppose someone listening to the piece without any background knowledge would not necessarily attach all this meaning to the music (in fact they could come up with their own associations), but I know it's there so, that's all part of the fun of descriptive music. "You have fun-fun... you have fun-fun" (Trick-o-treating, 1994).
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